The European Commission's green light for the fifth tranche of Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) refutes those who were banking on the Italian government's purported failure to deliver on the plan, Premier Giorgia Meloni said after the tranche's approval Tuesday.
"I am very happy to announce that the European Commission today approved the payment of the fifth instalment of the NRRP," Meloni said in a video message, stressing that "it is excellent news for Italy, it is excellent news for the citizens.
"It is news that once again disproves those who had bet on the failure of this government, those who hoped in their hearts that Italy could lose Europe's money to perhaps gain an electoral advantage.
"But it did not happen like that.
And with the work of these months we have shown that all those predictions were wrong.
